Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Digital Citizenship Curriculum training

Suriname currently lacks a formal ICT curriculum for secondary education. As an ICT teacher, I decided not to start from scratch and began exploring available resources to facilitate my teaching.

My search led me to commonsense.org, a platform offering comprehensive Digital Citizenship curricula spanning all grade levels (K-12). The best part? They generously provide ready-to-use lesson plans at no cost. These lesson plans are thoughtfully categorized by grade levels, units, and topics for easy access.

To acquaint myself with this valuable resource, I took a free one-hour tutorial designed for grades 6-8. While there was a slight discrepancy in time allocation (with their lesson plans based on 45-minute sessions while we have 40-minute lessons here), we can successfully integrate the Digital Citizenship Curriculum into our school's various grade levels.